These slipped in over the transom in the last days, and while some of you will be well on top of all three let me take the risk and share them with those who may not have spotted them for your weekend reading, listening and musing pleasure .

A personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less. It’s that simple. (Easy to say, but to my mind it is the thought not the exact arithmetic all the time that counts. again. You will find it at http://five.sentenc.es/.)